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It's really been an enlightening experience. Being "forced" to buy an album, front to back, has some real benefits. I've found that had I had the choice 5 or 10 years ago to just buy the particular songs I wanted, not the entire album, I would have missed out on a ton of songs that I ended up really really liking. Because they are songs I didn't particularly like on a first hear. And also because they "fit" into the theme and tone of the album.
I'd probably have missed out on 80% of the songs I like if I didn't have to buy the whole album/CD, going back 20 years. Some I recently listened to front to back and rediscovered .....
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Originally posted by Overpaid Slacker
The lament for a long time was paying $15 for one good, catchy tune, a couple of listenable tunes and a bunch of crap. Perhaps the a la carte music menu offered today will force bands/producers to make an album full of good music, not two songs to which 45 minutes of crap is attached.
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I think it goes both ways. I certainly have benefitted from having heard some songs not destined to be played on the radio or any other medium's playlist. But, I have way too many albums of 1 or 2 really good listenable songs.